Publisher's Synopsis
This book is American in all its implications - big, full of beauty and of hope. It is the record of an American boy's torments and thrills, his slow maturing, his inhibitions, his aspirations. It is a story of adolescent love and of creative activity in America.;Born in 1918, Walter Van Tilburg Clark ranks as one of Nevada's most distinguished literary figures in the 20th century, as well as a leading interpreter of the American West. His publications include "The Ox-Bow Incident" and "The Track of the Cat".
